Go from data to insight to action with Power BI Desktop

Report authoring made easy

Connect to your data, wherever it is

Access data from hundreds of supported on-premises and cloud-based sources, such as Dynamics 365, Salesforce, Azure SQL DB, Excel, and SharePoint. Ensure it’s always up to date with automated, incremental refreshes. Power BI Desktop enables you to draw deep insights for a broad range of scenarios.

Prep and model your data with ease

Data prep can take most of your time, but it doesn’t have to. Reclaim hours in your day using the self-service Power Query experience familiar to millions of Excel users. Ingest, transform, integrate and enrich data in Power BI.

Provide advanced analytics with the familiarity of Excel

Enable business users to dig deeper into data and find patterns they may have otherwise missed, with Power BI features like quick measures, grouping, forecasting, and clustering. Advanced users have full control over their model using powerful DAX formula language. If you’re familiar with Excel, you’ll feel at home in Power BI.

Create interactive reports customized for your business

Create stunning reports with interactive data visualizations. Tell your data story using a drag-and-drop canvas and hundreds of modern data visuals from Microsoft and partners—or create your own, using the Power BI open source custom visuals framework. Design your report with theming, formatting, and layout tools.

Author for everyone, anywhere

Get visual analytics to the people who need it. Create mobile-optimized reports for viewers to consume on the go. Publish from Power BI Desktop to the cloud or on-premises. Embed reports created in Power BI Desktop into existing apps or websites.

Now share your beautiful reports

Get the most from Power BI by combining Power BI Desktop for authoring with Power BI Pro for collaboration. Start sharing your reports now, with a free 60-day trial of Power BI Pro.

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